who here smokes?

[The Hitch]

Born in New delhi and my dad used to work for the Govt yea i have been around because i was a spoiled brat since i am the only son. What else do you wanna know?

Im very interested in peoples backgrounds, especially as exotic as yours, so just keep going till you feel like stopping

so wait, your mothers indian?

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Im very interested in peoples backgrounds, especially as exotic as yours, so just keep going till you feel like stopping

so wait, your mothers indian?

you dont have to mock me or be condescending and yea my mom is a human being.

 

[The Hitch]

you dont have to mock me or be condescending and yea my mom is a human being.

How am i mocking you or being condescending?

 

[boomcie]

you dont have to mock me or be condescending and yea my mom is a human being.

Yo Zam. He's actually genuinely interested as far as I can tell.

 

[The Hitch]

Yo Zam. He's actually genuinely interested as far as I can tell.

Why thank you. though as with most issues, its been resolved by pm

 

[Timmy-loves-Rabo]

My best mate is Indian, well he was born here but Indian background.

Zam where is was your fav place to live if you don't mind me asking ?

 

[Zam_Olyas]

My best mate is Indian, well he was born here but Indian background.

Zam where is was your fav place to live if you don't mind me asking ?

New delhi is getting better every year, esp south delhi. the CW games did really help too.

 

[craig1985]

Im very interested in peoples backgrounds, especially as exotic as yours, so just keep going till you feel like stopping

so wait, your mothers indian?

I'm the same. I'm open about my life as I'm that important as I don't have much to hide or see the point in being in myself being anonymous, but I respect people's right to do so. I've met plenty of people from other forum's that I've posted on, and I have even met durianrider at a race last year.

TBH hitch I never would have figured that you were of Polish descent, or when that you mentioned that you were, I figured you were actually born in Poland and your family had moved to London when you were a kid

Me? I was born in New Zealand and have been in Australia since I was 13 and you would probably never tell with my accent. And aside from the two aforementioned countries that I've lived in, I've found myself at any one point in England, France, Italy (including the Vatican when I was in Rome), Spain, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Japan, China, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Brunei.

 

[L'arriviste]

Um yeah, back to smoking, then.

Most folks, like Bavarianrider above, have got an Amsterdam story. Bit like the "What happens in Vegas..." equivalent for Europe.

On one of my partner's trips there, years before we met, she went blind and had to sit around for a couple of hours until it wore off.

On my first ever Spam trip, being thoroughly unaccustomed to the strengths available, I freaked out badly and had to hide in a toilet for a while. I came out eventually because I couldn't feel the lower half of my body. I was quite literally a floating torso.

When I got back to where my gf of the time was waiting (she wasn't at all worried where I had been for the last 45 minutes or so), I had a full-on brain split in which one half wanted to attack her and the other wanted to, well, do other stuff.

In an unexpected moment of clarity, I decided that it should be possible to "convert" one symptom into another. By this time, I was fully paranoid that I would be arrested, so I decided the safest other symptom to "get into" was hunger. So I found this Turkish shop and bought up a load of cola and peanuts and skulked back to my digs. Unbelievably, it actually worked and after four hours, I came out the other side.

I still had massive paranoia the next day though. Watching Paris-Roubaix on the TV the following morning, I was convinced that I had already checked out of the room and would be thrown out on the street at any moment...

Great days!

 

[markene2]

I am a smoker, 10 a day. Not much really.

 

[Rouetheday]

Did anybody else get a kick out of Parrulo's comment in his first post about how "this is the fittest I've been in years". You're 21 years old, son! Kids say the darndest things, don't they? BTW, why do you think we care whether or not you put sugar in your coffee? Are you worried we might think you were less hard and cool if you did?

I can't say I'm surprised this thread devolved into a catalog of people's drinking habits. There's a little known film farce from 1971 called 'Cold Turkey' about a small town's effort to give up smoking for a month in order to win a large cash prize (from a tobacco company, no less). The funniest scene is where Tom Poston's town drunk explains to **** Van ****'s character how this is a no-go for him- "You have to understand, Reverend, the 'smoke bone' is connected to the 'drink bone'...)

Another poster brought up the subject of whether or not having a parent who smoked made it more likely you would start. My mother smoked fairly heavily 'till she was forty. She was never able to do anything remotely athletic and she had a persistent hacking cough. (not to even mention the god awful smell coming off her. Sorry, Mama. ) I think if you're a strong-minded, rational young person you can't help but come to the conclusion that starting smoking would be a pretty f***ed-up thing to do.

 

[L'arriviste]

Another poster brought up the subject of whether or not having a parent who smoked made it more likely you would start. My mother smoked fairly heavily 'till she was forty. She was never able to do anything remotely athletic and she had a persistent hacking cough. (not to even mention the god awful smell coming off her. Sorry, Mama. ) I think if you're a strong-minded, rational young person you can't help but come to the conclusion that starting smoking would be a pretty f***ed-up thing to do.

Exactly the sort of young person I wasn't!

 

[jamiephillips]

I gave up smoking a few years ago after nearly 20 years! Got into raving in 1989 the year after leaving school,(see wikipeadia!) before that was a "juvenile" time triallist, PB for 10 miles was 26.25 (hardly setting the world alight!) During the raving years took lots of E, speed, smoked weed, fags you name it! So as you might imagine it's been hard getting back into cycling! I reckon I've got twice as much lactic acid as a "normal" human being!!

 

[usedtobefast]

she will teach you some things

 

[RDV4ROUBAIX]

Just took a fat pull of some Santa Cruz Sour Diesel, legally..

 

[Michielveedeebee]

We do have a girl at my 'kot' and she always brings a ****load of weed with her, she bought during the weekend And she always shares ^^

 

[Rip:30]

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

 

[Eric8-A]

Never smoked before. Most people I know do it (mostly weed). It never really caught my attention. It smells bad (both cigarettes and marijuana). I do however like the smell of an unlit cigarette. The tobacco inside it has some smokey/fruity scent. I don't know if that's the best description, but I like it.

One thing that I've always had an itch for since I was a kid was smokeless tobacco. Upin finding about the nasty things it can do to you, that kind of deterred me. But then I found about snus and decided to try it. It's pretty good. Only thing is, there's only once type of snus that I can get over the counter where I live. If I want variety, I have to buy some online, and the shipping's pricey. One thing I was also scared of before trying it was the addiction aspect of it. The last time I had some snus in was around March. And up to now, I havn't felt the need for it or anything.

 

[ElChingon]

So what's the best cigarettes to get started and not get those headaches or burnt lung feeling? Something weak and not too smokie... you know what I mean.

And are vaporizers all they say they are?

Lastly, those new electronic cigarettes are they truly smokeless? Can you use them out in the open and not have some nag, well nag you?

 

[Eric8-A]

Lastly, those new electronic cigarettes are they truly smokeless? Can you use them out in the open and not have some nag, well nag you?

Electronic cigarettes claim that there's no smoke in their products. What your blowing out is water vapor. Also, the nicotine is in liquid form.

 

[ElChingon]

Electronic cigarettes claim that there's no smoke in their products. What your blowing out is water vapor. Also, the nicotine is in liquid form.

So you could smoke them in a non-smoking place and no problemo?

 

[Eric8-A]

Yup. The commercials advertising E-cigarettes has people saying they can smoke in bars, restaurants, any place where smoking isn't allowed.

 

[blutto]

...the anti-smoking lobby is apparently no different than the climate change lobby...its the leading edge of the liberal totalitarian state...

...you will find articles in the link below that show smoking is actually good for you...

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/2...And-I-said-Nothing-Because-I-Was-Not-a-Smoker

Cheers

blutto

 

[El Pistolero]

I don't smoke. I don't see the point in inhaling smoke for nothing- you only get addicted to it after you've smoked a few. I really don't get it. Is there anyone that liked the taste of his first cigarette? Why would you continue after that? To fit in a group?